Robotron - 2084
Platform: Commodore 64
Gametype: Undefined
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This is a port of the arcade game of the same name.

You are a mutant human, who by some freak of nature has the ability to shoot energy pulses from his body in eight different directions! Your job is simple: save humanity from their own creation -- the ROBOTRONS! The gameplay is pretty unique for the time. You can move and fire in any of eight directions. You get thrown in a room with various evil baddies strewn about, you've got to kill all the robots while at the same time finding some way to grab humans and avoid death. 

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Trivia

The original arcade version of Robotron: 2084 was played with two joysticks, one to move and one to fire. The Atari 5200 version of the game also uses this same control scheme; to make operating two 5200 joysticks easier, a special "controller holder" was bundled with the game. Robotron: 2084 is one of two Atari 5200 games to utilize this, the other being Space Dungeon.

Robotron 2084 was one of the "Fabulous Eleven" launch games for the Atari 7800.

Robotron: 2084 was voted #72 in the Top 100 Games of All Time poll published by Game Informer Magazine (Issue 100, August 2001).

This is one of the better Atarisoft conversions; everything is very faithful to the original, single joystick control is very good, and there is practically no slowdown on a 4.77MHz machine. This is notable because the Atarisoft conversions of the early 1980s varied wildly in quality, from faithful to extremely poor.

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Description from the packaging:

The Robot Revolt has begun.
The thrill of the arcade game.
It's the year 2084, and robots are turning against their masters. Saved by a genetic accident, only you can resist their mutant re-programming and defend humanity. Grunts close in. The Brains launch missiles. Tanks, Sheroids and Electrodes spell death. And then, there's the Hulk-immune to your laser. Your mission is to rescue, evade and destroy. Good Luck!

The world's most popular video games can be yours to play at home, now that Atari makes them for the Apple II. And the possibilities don't stop there. More compatible software will be available soon from Atarisoft, including educational, management and productivity programs.
Atari currently offers the following games on Apple II diskettes: Pac-Man, Centipede, Defender, Dig Dug, Donkey Kong, Stargate and Robotron: 2084. And there's much more to come!


http://www.mobygames.com/game/c64/robotron-2084
